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Indian epic poetry is the epic poetry written in the Indian subcontinent, traditionally called Kavya (or Kāvya; Sanskrit: काव्य, IAST: kāvyá). The Ramayana and the Mahabharata, which were originally composed in Sanskrit and later translated into many other Indian languages, and the Five Great Epics of Tamil literature and Sangam literature are some of the oldest surviving epic poems ever written.[1]
- ^ Datta, Amaresh (1988). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: devraj to jyoti - Amaresh Datta - Google Books. Sahitya Akademi. ISBN 9788126011940. Retrieved 10 May 2012.